Vocabulary Biome: A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests.
DVD player. A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some manufacturers originally announced that DVD players would be available as early as the middle of 1996. These predictions were woefully optimistic.
a dvd-r disc image by wayne ruston from Fotolia.com. Windows Media Player allows you to play any DVD video file, including PAL movies. Because they're typically imported from Europe, PAL movies have a slightly different frame rate than the North American NTSC format.